Bill Text: NY A07421 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows non-profit national assessment providers to license data to accredited colleges, scholarship organizations and non-profit educational programs for the purpose of providing access to employment, scholarship, financial aid, and postsecondary educational opportunities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A07421 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07421-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7421

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 7, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  allowing  non-profit
          national assessment providers to license data for certain purposes

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of  section  2-d  of  the  education  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
     3    e.  Nothing in this section shall limit non-profit national assessment
     4  providers, based on the express opt-in consent of the student  given  in
     5  response  to clear and conspicuous notice, from licensing data solely to
     6  accredited colleges, scholarship  organizations  and  non-profit  educa-
     7  tional programs for the purpose of providing access to employment, scho-
     8  larship,  financial  aid,  and  postsecondary  educational opportunities
     9  provided such organizations are required to  maintain  the  security  of
    10  such  data  and are subject to strict limitations on its use and disclo-
    11  sure.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10856-01-1
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